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Learning Style Profile for INFP (The Visionary)

INFPs learn best by studying, reflecting, exchanging ideas and linking them to other ideas to form new patterns of understanding.

To them, learning is a way of expanding their horizons and a path towards growth and development. They prefer to learn in an unstructured manner, and a friendly, co-operative atmosphere in which exploration and discovery are encouraged is a prerequisite for their success. They enjoy playing with ideas, experimenting with possibilities and thinking around their subject. They become absorbed in a subject deeply and read as much about it as they can. For them to become involved in the learning process, their imagination needs to be stimulated, so they benefit from reading, video, inspiring lectures, workshops and group discussions. Analysis and concentration on facts and details tends to demotivate them.
As learners, INFPs:
  • are quick to grasp ideas and possibilities
  • are motivated to learn in order to further their own and other people’s development
  • enjoy abstraction and seeing patterns emerge by linking disparate ideas together
  • benefit from allowing their creativity and inspiration free reign
  • may need to think about how they can use what they have learnt
  • may need to set themselves targets and timetables
  • may need to develop judgment, criticism and objectivity
  • may need to periodically review and summarise what they have learnt
INFPs learn best when:
  • emotionally engaged by a subject, or can relate it to their personal interests and values
  • working alone or in small groups
  • required to explore a subject in depth
  • allowed to absorb ideas at their own pace and to digest them thoroughly before acting on them or making decisions
  • listening and observing, e.g. watching how other people do things, listening to a lecture or presentation, taking notes
  • encouraged to read, research and reflect on a subject
  • encouraged to share their insights and pursue their personal interests
  • ideas are presented imaginatively or in an inspiring manner, for example using role-play, dramatisation or multi-sensory presentations
  • given personal attention by their tutor or teacher, in an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect
INFPs learn least well and may be demotivated when:
  • having to take centre stage or being put 'under the spotlight'
  • being taught by 'rote' (i.e. repetition), or when given specific instructions or rigid guidelines
  • involved in situations which require spur-of-the-moment action and decision-making
  • the focus is on analysis, detail or facts and figures
  • there is emphasis is on competition and rivalry
  • presented with too many distractions or alternatives
 
 
  With an awareness of your preferred learning style, you can adapt the way you learn, so that instead of undermining your confidence or frustrating you, it plays to your strengths and facilitates an enjoyable and productive learning experience.  
 
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The ideas behind the Personality Type concepts presented here are those of the eminent Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, which were later developed further by Katharine Briggs and Isabel Briggs-Myers, creators of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)® instrument.

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